Genesis 1:1-8

Genesis 1:1-8 
English Standard Version (ESV)

  What's amazing to me is that at some point, the canvas upon which Vincent Van Gogh painted Starry Night was blank.  It was a white rectangle, and he eventually created a masterpiece upon it.  In the same vein, Michelangelo's David was at one point, just a cube of marble, and The Count of Monte Cristo was simply a collection of blank pages (what a sad, sad world it must have been!).  What we consider masterpieces were, one day, not even figments of the imagination.
  The world, the known creation, did not exist at one point.  There was once nothing, a watery chaos if you take the Creation account seriously, a singularity if you lean towards the popular physics interpretation (I think.  Please don't email me and tell me I'm wrong on this.  I work at a bank.  I'm commonly wrong on matters of interplanetary physics.)  At any rate, there was nothing, and then there was suddenly something.  God created, through the power of God's voice, and there was something.  Theologically, we say that God created ex nihilo, out of nothing.
  What's important for you and I is that God created something out of nothing.  If you had looked at the universe before God's creation, you wouldn't have seen anything, and you wouldn't have imagined what could possibly be.  But not only could God imagine what could be, but also God had the power to make that happen.
  In the same way, God can see into your future, and God can imagine ways to use you that you can't even begin to see.  God's vision is so much stronger than yours, and God can imagine how you might be used for God's glory and for the loving service of others that you can't see.  Also, God has the power to make that happen -- God can send the Holy Spirit to bless and equip you, to surround you with a loving and supportive community that helps you into a new future that is beyond what you can ask or imagine.  God is at work, and God can send you forward and create a new future for you.  Trust in the God who creates anew at every opportunity, for God has the vision and the power to make all things new.